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Skinny Kid
Minutes to Midnight
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I was only fifteen
A family lunch in the summer
I was looking at grandad
Too much wine for my jolly old man
He was talking too loud
About a time in the war
Somewhere in Berlin
Couldn't jump the train
Couldn't stop the rain
Couldn't guess the pain
Couldn't break the chain
When he walked through the gate
In iron letters read his fate
The skinny kid
Drowns in an ocean
He tries to swim
Among wheels in motion
The skinny kid
Can't stop the corrosion
He's losing his grip
Wave upon wave of
Faceless strangers
Chosen, discarded
Put in a line to the chambers
He was spared by the guards
Just because of his craft
The skinny kid
Like a sudden explosion
Runs away from the pit
A dream has swollen
The skinny kid
High above on a tree
He's tied up to sleep
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